LA12 8LJ

Coniston and Hawkshead · Westmorland and Furness · England

Updated September 2026

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Location overview

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Post town: Ulverston
Ward: Coniston and Hawkshead
Local authority: Westmorland and Furness
Constituency: Westmorland and Lonsdale
Postcode district: LA12
Postcode sector: LA12 8

Nearby postcodes

Nearby postcode distances
Postcode	Distance
LA12 8LH	1.6 km
LA12 8BB	1.6 km
LA12 8LP	1.7 km
LA12 8BE	1.7 km
LA12 8LW	1.7 km

Complete postcode fields and official codes

Postcode: LA12 8LJ
Status: Current
Introduced: 1 January 1980
Terminated: Not published
Postcode area: LA
Postcode district: LA12
Postcode sector: LA12 8
Latitude: 54.330665
Longitude: -2.995695
British National Grid easting: 335,348
British National Grid northing: 493,245

Statistical and administrative geographies

Country: England · E92000001
Region: North West · E12000002
Local authority district: Westmorland and Furness · E06000064
Electoral ward: Coniston and Hawkshead · E05014221
Parish or community: E04002644
Westminster constituency: Westmorland and Lonsdale · E14001580
Output area: E00097839
Lower layer super output area: South Lakeland 007A · E01019356
Middle layer super output area: South Lakeland 007 · E02004021

Postcode source versions

Ordnance Survey: Code-Point Open Version 2026-08 · Current postcode units in Great Britain · OGL-3.0
Office for National Statistics: ONS Postcode Directory Version 2026-08 · United Kingdom; Northern Ireland excluded pending rights review; Crown Dependencies outside product scope · OGL-3.0 with third-party rights
Ordnance Survey: Boundary-Line Version 2026-05 · Local-authority boundaries in Great Britain · OS OpenData Licence

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Property

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3 recorded sales at this postcode

Address	Date	Price
High Dale Park, Jane Meadow, Satterthwaite, Ulverston, LA12 8LJ	8 November 2019	£565,000
High Dale Park, Jane Meadow, Satterthwaite, Ulverston, LA12 8LJ	23 May 2003	£225,000
Yew Tree Cottage, Satterthwaite, Ulverston, LA12 8LJ	31 January 1997	£145,000

Schools

Within 3.1 miles of this postcode

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Open schools: 1
Primary: 1
Secondary: 0

Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School

Community school
4.7 km

Census 2021

Population and age profile

Postcode residents: 4
Postcode households: 2
Residents per household: 2.0
LA12 8 residents: 2,237

Age bands in LA12 8

Wider postcode sector

Age 0 to 14: 10%
Age 15 to 24: 6.8%
Age 25 to 44: 17.1%
Age 45 to 64: 32.8%
Age 65 and over: 33.3%

This postcode contained 0.2% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider LA12 8 sector, not people in this individual postcode.

Small counts are adjusted for privacy, so totals can differ slightly between Census tables.

Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.

Fixed broadband coverage

Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.

Superfast, 30 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 100 Mbit/s+: 0%
Ultrafast, 300 Mbit/s+: 0%
Gigabit-capable: 0%

Unable to receive decent fixed or FWA broadband: 100%
Next Generation Access: 0%
Decent broadband available from fixed wireless: 0%

Predicted coverage, not measured speeds. Check availability for your address with a provider. Postcode-level full-fibre figures are not published in this release.

Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Nearby transport

Far Sawrey Windermere Ferry Terminal

FER · Far Sawrey
2.8 miles
Far Sawrey Windermere Ferry Terminal

FBT · Far Sawrey
2.8 miles
Bowness Ferry Nab

FBT · Bowness on Windermere
3.1 miles
Bowness Ferry Nab

FER · Bowness on Windermere
3.1 miles
Brantwood (Coniston) Ferry Landing

FER · Brantwood
3.1 miles

Relative deprivation

English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for South Lakeland 007A, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.

Overall IMD decile

5 of 10

Overall England rank

15,358 of 33,755

Income: 9 of 10
Employment: 9 of 10
Education and skills: 9 of 10
Health and disability: 10 of 10
Crime: 7 of 10
Housing and services: 1 of 10
Living environment: 1 of 10

These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.

Flood risk

Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.

High risk addresses: 0
Medium risk addresses: 0
Low risk addresses: 0
Groundwater flood alert area: Unlikely

Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.

Evidence in context

Schools

1 open schools are in scope, including 1 primary and 0 secondary schools. Hawkshead Esthwaite Primary School is the nearest published school at 2.9 miles.

Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.